LONG BEACH - Filmmaker Gary Takesian says homophobia starts in the home. Homophobia grows out of the attitudes adults and parents have, and kids learn from that," said the 59-year-old former Long Beach resident, who directed the documentary "Teach Your Children Well.
This is a bold step for the Reverend to take," said [Allen Roskoff], who has known and worked with [Al Sharpton] for more than 20 years. "I think it's always an excellent time to move forward to fight bigotry and homophobia," said Roskoff, adding that Sharpton's decision to focus on this issue will help to generate national attention and could very well save lives in the long-term. "Historically, the church has been a sanctuary for Black people," said [Phil Wilson]. "Sadly, Black churches have not stepped up to the plate on HIV/AIDS as they have historically stepped up to the plate on other issues," he said. "Rev. Sharpton can do enormous good on this issue in New York City and nationally," said [Brian Ellner]. "We still need to get past old concepts of this disease and continue to cha...
Representative Dan Burton (R. Ind.) I. The Text II. The Legislative History III. Case Law IV. Conclusion
While other Black preachers decry the gay lifestyle, my sermons say there is "no Greek, no Jew; no male, no female." And I add, "no straight, no gay." There is an element of emotion here as well. The juggernaut of Black group dynamics that oppose homosexuality was once played out in my presence. Long before HIV/AIDS fixed itself in the collective consciousness and culled out an usand-them culture among gay and straight Blacks, I saw the pain that homophobia spawns. Blacks remain more disapproving of homosexuality," wrote the author of the synopsis of the piece. "But are moderately more supportive of gay civil liberties and markedly more opposed to antigay employment discrimination than are whites. How can people that have been the focus of American racism promulgate discrimination aga...
The social alienation of gays and lesbians resulting from homophobia causes certain health problems, such as stress and substance abuse. Homophobic attitudes among physicians affect the quality of health care given to gays and lesbians.
NO ONE will know with certainty why Tyler Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge last September. The Rutgers student allegedly had been secretly filmed having a sexual encounter with another man. The encounter allegedly was broadcast on the Web, that anonymous cloud that shields cowards from the view of their victims. The power of the Web is anonymity, screen names that often do not reveal real identities. I do not know why Clementi jumped. I do want to find out if a webcam was set up to watch him having a same-sex encounter. I do want to know whether it was motivated by homophobia. And I do want any individual who knew what was happening, while it was happening, to face a judge and jury in open court.
A Sept. 18 letter to Ms. Ellson from NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, approving [Marsha Ellison]'s actions, began "Thank you for your courageous stand against homophobia in your community. Bond's letter holds that "Gay and lesbian rights are not 'special rights' in any way. It isn't 'special' to be free from discrimination - it is an ordinary, universal entitlement of citizenship...." Bond posits, "Sexual disposition parallels race," and "Like race, our sexuality isn't a preference." In the first instance, I cannot detect what scientific findings Julian Bond is attempting to assert, especially since the notion of race is a provable fiction of 18th and 19th century pseudo-science.
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